While looking at pics and watching school bus conversion videos I see people removing rivits from walls and ceiling. All the interior in my bus is screwed together and seems as though it came that way. Do some come with screws instead of rivits?
Doesnít make a difference to me just curious.

While looking at pics and watching school bus conversion videos I see people removing rivits from walls and ceiling. All the interior in my bus is screwed together and seems as though it came that way. Do some come with screws instead of rivits?
Doesnít make a difference to me just curious.

Thomas buses used a lot of screws. I think when it gets down to removing/replacing 500 screws or 500 rivets, you'll wish to God they were screws.

As he said. My Thomas was all screws on the inside. Screws are easier than rivets to be sure, that doesn't mean they are easy! Even with a good impact drill you're going to fatigue pretty fast working overhead.

My BlueBIrd is all rivets. I'll be starting that part this weekend....

I bought a Porter Cable Impact Driver .... and a lot of Philips #2 impact bits.

There is a knack. Start the driver very slowly. Let it hammer the screw loose without the bit slipping, then hit the trigger harder.

In the entire interior removal I have had maybe 15 screws, out of many, many hundreds, that refused to budge. Of those maybe 12 succumbed to an angle-grinder slot and large screwdriver, and about three needed drilling or chiseling out.